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  • Spotify app is OK. I can listen to music on background with no problems. You said you listen to obscure songs, Spotify is lacking in that regard and YTM has the best library.

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    I've got banned from Apex Legends
  • free cheats for apex on Linux

    You gotta br kidding me. These people have no idea what kind of disservice they do to Linux.

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    WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. virtualbox
  • WSL: If your friend is a dev and needs Linux cli utilities, use this. Dual Boot: If your friend wants to daily drive Linux, use this. Shrink Windows NTFS partition within Windows then install Linux to blank space. Virtualbox: Testing ground for dual boot, your friend can familiarise themselves with Linux safely using a VM.

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    Proton CEO comments about proton drive client for linux
  • The problem isn't possible dependency conflicts, it is file mamager integration. GNOME and KDE use different systems for integrating online systems with their file managers and obviously both need to be supported. FUSE could work but telling from my experience with NTFS3 it would be unbearably slow.

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    When they ask to install Linux for them
  • Meanwhile I mount the ISO, copy paste its contents to a ~150 GiB FAT32 partition on my HDD I used for backing up PS3 and then modify grub.cfg so GRUB can pass the correct arguments to Linux kernel.

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    Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
  • be it as something modified and distributed on a unsanctioned channel

    Downloading APKs from reputable sources and signature checking can help with this one. Android will refuse to upgrade an app if APK has a different signature anyways.

    custom injected by another malicious actor/app

    If this is possible there are bigger problems.

    Multiplayer game operators have obligation to curb modified clients so their actual paying clients have a levelled playing field.

    There isn't much I can say for that.

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    Solution to my Thinkpad E16 Wi-Fi Woes
  • I have 8723be, not only it randomly disconnects but also it sometimes drops to 30 KB/s requiring a reconnect and has bad signal reception even on Windows. Ethernet 4 life.

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    • Hardware: Intel Core i3-6100U, 8 GiB RAM, Intel HD 520
    • Software: Fedora Linux 40, Proton 8, Mesa 24.1.6
    • Game Settings: DX12, frame gen off, FSR, everything on low/off, 720p windowed with %100 resolution.

    Game did not start before renaming folder Engine/Plugins/Runtime/Nvidia. I was stuck at a black screen. I obviously did not expect good performance, I just wanted to see if I could run the benchmark.

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    Installing OS, 10 years ago:

    Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

    Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

    Installing OS today:

    Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

    Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

    Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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    My HP All-In-One 20-c081nt has the processor Intel Core i3-6100U, which is supposed to not run hotter than 100C. On Windows if 100C is reached, the screen will fade out and PC will immediately shutdown. A warning will be shown at next boot. On Linux, seen in the video, the PC will simply keep running as if nothing has happened and show the thermal shutdown warning after a graceful reboot.

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    Long story short, this year is my exam preparation year and due to my nature I will take extreme measures to prevent distraction and focus on studying. I will decommision my PC, stop browsing Linux & tech related websites and leave this beautiful place called Lemmy. To make things clear, I am not influenced by anyone for doing this.

    I want to use this post as a time capsule to revisit after 10 months, so I will write my predictions and also collect everyone's. What do you expect to see in Linux and tech scene in 10 months from now? Here are my predictions:

    • Pop OS 24.04 will be awesome and be the go-to recommendation when it is released
    • SteamOS for PCs will not be released yet
    • Linux market share will be around %2-2.5 in Steam hardware survey
    • Plasma 6 will be released around January and will be a bit buggy, but most rough edges will be smoothed by the next release in 3-4 months
    • NVK will have performance parity with official drivers in certain configurations
    • Wayland will gain wider adoption, even on Nvidia
    • There will be little to no progress in compatibility with current anti-cheat blocked games

    Side note:

    • Web environment integrity will be adopted only in education industry because it is dominated by Chromebooks at least in US. It will not be adopted by streaming services because highest level of DRM is only available on Edge and Safari. Even if Chrome had WEI support it would be meaningless because Netflix will stream 720p / 1080p anyways. MSFT and Apple will not implement WEI in their browsers in order to preserve the end-to-end control they have currently. Banks will also not implement WEI because they may be still serving customers using legacy (Windows 7) technology or simply using Firefox.
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    1. Download Firefox Nightly 115. The latest version has crackling audio. (118 at the time of writing) Here is a download link for aarch64: link
    2. Launch FF, tap 3 dots, settings, About Firefox Nightly, hammer the Firefox logo until debug options are enabled.
    3. In settings go to Customisation, set dark mode. Spotify doesn't support light mode so this will make it look nicer.
    4. In the address bar type about:config and hit the "+" icon.
    5. Set these parameters for new value:
    • Name: general.useragent.override
    • Type: String
    • Value: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

    This step is necessary if you want to make a web app, otherwise you can use "request desktop website" option.

    1. In about:config, set this value to 1.0: layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
    2. Go to open.spotify.com and log in. You may need to change your device's orientation.
    3. Find the ideal value for layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. You can use float values like 1.22 and values lower than 1. Larger values will make everything bigger but the interface may not fit or the website may crash, smaller values will make everything tiny.
    4. Hit 3 dots and tap "Install".

    Here is how it looks like on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/CpiheUT

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    Us Lemmings seem to be more interested in memes than the actual thing.

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    I currently have 2 PCs which dual-boot from single drive:

    • W10+Garuda on UEFI
    • W10+Pop OS on previously CSM, now migrated to UEFI

    I have used dual boot for 2 years and Windows never decided to play the boss and override Linux. In fact, some Linux distros overwrote existing bootloader and put their own in my experience. I didn't have many problems and if I did, they were easy to fix. I even play Steam games from NTFS on both PCs. On the contrary, I heard many horror stories, dual booting is avoided and not recommended to newcomers by most users. How is your experience with dual booting Linux and Windows? Did Windows ever deleted Linux bootloader on updates for you?

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